Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Dare to risk public criticism.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Effective action is always unjust.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.